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From what I experienced in various Ruby on Rails projects using relational databases, developers often tend to treat the database as a necessary evil. In many cases, especially small apps, it is not harmful, but I think it tends to enforce suboptimal solutions. If your case is the latter or...

Abstract There are plenty of authorization libraries for Ruby (or Rails). Many strive to implement an elegant DSL to express their rule system, attempting to become fully declarative (as opposed to imperative). While this approach has some merit, we’ll disregard it completely. Instead, we’ll see how using the simplest possible...

Abstract There are plenty of authorization libraries for Ruby (or Rails). Many strive to implement an elegant DSL to express their rule system, attempting to become fully declarative (as opposed to imperative). While this approach has some merit, we’ll disregard it completely. Instead, we’ll see how using the simplest possible...

Parallel Queries? Our favourite database, PostgreSQL, had a new version released back in September 2016. It’s not a very popular version yet, but it has become the new default on, amongst others, Heroku. The biggest feature delivered in 9.6, listed as the first one in 9.6 Changelog, was the parallel...

We’re super happy to report that Rebased is now a member of Ruby Together! ✨ Ruby Together is a much-needed initiative aimed at providing stable development and support for cornerstone pieces of Ruby infrastructure: RubyGems, RubyGems.org and Bundler. Six releases of Bundler (1.9-1.14), switching RubyGems to Bundler’s Molinillo dependency resolver and...